Best gay novels
11 gay books every queer guy should read, at least once
By Emen8, updated 2 months ago in Lifestyle / Entertainment
Whether your interest is in complex gay characters or historically poignant homosexual love stories, here are eleven gay books every queer man should read, at least once.
Here are some of the foremost gay books for anyone looking to lose themselves in beautifully crafted stories. This list of gay books contains some of the stories that support shape our understandings of the male lover experience, our history, our loves and our families. If you have already read them all, please get in touch, I ponder we may be soulmates. While you’re at it you can also test out our 6 gay fantasy novels to add to your reading list.
1. Call Me by Your Name, Andre Aciman
Many will realize the gorgeous production by the alike title, starring Timothée Chalamet, the king of the vertical twinks. Well, the book it’s based on, written by the talented Andre Aciman, is equally captivating. For those unfamiliar, the novel follows 17-year-old Elio Pearlman’s summer romance affair with his father’s PhD pupil, Oliver, at his family’s villa in rural northern Italy.
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This gender-flipped reboot of the iconic 1970's film Taxi Driver follows a rideshare driver who is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity, and financial security...until she decides she's done waiting.
When magazine reporter Monique Grant is summoned by aging and reclusive Hollywood movie representative Evelyn Hugo, she's determined to utilize this opportunity to jump-start her career. Evelyn is finally ready to reveal the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life, which includes tales of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great love she's kept secret for decades. Monique begins to form a real connection to the legendary celebrity, but as her story nears a conclusion, it becomes shockingly clear why Evelyn chose her.
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The Wonderful Believers weaves the stories of a Chicago art gallery assistant who loses his friend (and soon everything he knows) to the 1980s AIDS epidemic and his friend’s sister, who grapples with her possess loss 30 years later in Paris.
What happens when a detransitioned man discovers that he’s expecting a baby with his girlfriend (w
It was another great year for LGBTQ books, as evidenced by the sprawling list of 65 standout titles across every genre published by Casey Stepaniuk earlier this month. Her list is a fantastic display of the range and depth of the year’s top queer books. But I wanted to zoom in a bit and offer a personal list, one narrowed down from my own stack of queer books I worked my way through over the past year. I thought it would be fun to perform a ranked list of the 12 queer novels that stood out to me this year. And by “fun,” I intend pleasurably agonizing. This was not an easy list to put together. There are several novels that almost made the trim and might even be just as worthy of a spot on the list but were nudged out for some abstract reason that would be difficult for me to perfectly explain. What I like about this ultimate 12 is that they’re all very distinct novels from one another, even as some of them can easily be place into conversation with one another. Together, they establish a thrilling tapestry of my year in gender non-conforming reading.
Many of the novels on the list carry out not have standalone reviews on Autostraddle yet, as I regrettably fell behind on books coverage this summer.
(A time capsule of queer perspective, from the late 1990s)
The Publishing Triangle complied a selection of the 100 best lesbian and gay novels in the tardy 1990s. Its purpose was to broaden the appreciation of female homosexual and gay literature and to promote discussion among all readers lgbtq+ and straight.
The Triangle’s 100 Best
The judges who compiled this list were the writers Dorothy Allison, David Bergman, Christopher Bram, Michael Bronski, Samuel Delany, Lillian Faderman, Anthony Heilbut, M.E. Kerr, Jenifer Levin, John Loughery, Jaime Manrique, Mariana Romo-Carmona, Sarah Schulman, and Barbara Smith.
1. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
2. Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
3. Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
4. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
5. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
6. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
7. The Good of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
8. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
9. The Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
10. Zami by Audré Lorde
11. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
12. Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
13. Billy Budd by Herman Melville
14. A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White
15. Dancer from the Boogie by A